History, providence, and eschatology

• Verfasst von: Stievermann, Jan [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: History, providence, and eschatology
• Verf.angabe: Jan Stievermann
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: 20 S.
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of Jonathan Edwards
• Ausgabe Quelle: First edition
• Ort Quelle: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021
• Jahr Quelle: 2021
• Band/Heft Quelle: (2021), Seite 215-234
• ISBN Quelle: 978-0-19-875406-0
• ISBN Quelle: 0-19-875406-X
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Stievermann, Jan, 1975 - : History, providence, and eschatology. - 2021
• K10plus-PPN: 182815217X

Abstract

This chapter discusses Edwards’s view of history and the end times. It does so by examining four interlocking frameworks of interpretation that Edwards inherited from Reformed-Puritan theology: first, a general approach to relating the Bible and history; second, an intense kind of providentialism; third, specific forms of biblical theology aiming toward an integrated salvation history; and fourth, a futurist type of millennialist eschatology. What emerges from this is the picture of an Edwards who was, for the most part, a traditionalist. At the same time, he, like many of his peers, engaged with the intellectual discourses of the Enlightenment, both by partaking in them and criticizing their perceived excesses. Edwards’s version of a moderate Protestant Enlightenment produced a deepened, eschatologically inflected interest in redemption history, which he understood as a progressive continuum. Within this framework of history Edwards came to assign crucial significance to revivals.